Introduction
Some schools have taken concrete steps to demonstrate their commitment to LGBT inclusiveness. Learn more about evaluating schools, school safety and how children experience prejudice.
Learn more about Welcoming Schools, an initiative of the HRC Foundation Family Project aimed at providing administrators, educators and parents/guardians with the resources necessary to create learning environments in which all learners are welcomed and respected.
- Download An Introduction to Welcoming Schools here.
- Read Article by Welcoming Schools' Kim Westheimer on tragic suicide of Carl Walker Hoover and stopping this cycle of violence.
You can also browse HRC’s resources to help you choose the right summer camp for your children that will allow them to experience the joys of camp without fear of harassment or exclusion.
Articles
School Resources for Parents
While we go through the same motions preparing for the school year as do all parents — buying school supplies, reviewing the bus schedule, lining up child care - we have the added anxiety about meeting a new teacher, introducing “our family,” and waiting to see how the school reacts to us and to our children.
Cyber Bullying and the LGBT Community
As children become increasingly tech savvy at younger and younger ages, bullying is spreading beyond the walls of a school or the fence of a playground. Electronic text is now a medium for what is called cyber bullying.
